There was the recent review in J Hum Lact (16: 95-98; 2000) that provided a
good summary of the research on this subject. I filled out forms for
joining a gym recently and one of the questions was whether you were
breastfeeding. Upon questioning the gym employee stated that if a mum was
breastfeeding she shouldn't do vigorous exercise- I think she was talking
without having been told what her answer to this question should be. I
think it is worth showing this article to any gym with that in their join
up questionaire because it provides a strong message that excercise is
another thing you are restricted in when you are breastfeeding. Young women
may carry that message in their heads for years before they have a child
and then who will tell them that they don't have to give up exercise to BF
their baby?

Karleen Gribble
Australia
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> >From the October 2000 Runner's World, page 3 of the special editorial
> section on women's running...
>
> "Crying Over Sour Milk?"
>
> "If you are new mom you may have heard that you shouldn't breast-feed
(sic)
> your baby after a workout because lactic acid will sour your milk.
That's a
> bunch of hooey, say researchers at the University of New Hampshire."
>
> "Exercise and breast-feeding (sic) are both healthful and compatible."
>
> Cool.
>
> Kathy, not a runner but married to one...
>
> Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
> Great Mills, MD
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
> "Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one
> determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger
> desires."- Marcelene Cox
>
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> End of LACTNET Digest - 19 Oct 2000 - Special issue (#2000-1189)
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